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Costs to Weigh Before Going Back to College as an Adult 08/30/2022 08:00pm • Completing a college degree is not an easy feat. It is especially challenging for adult learners, who often juggle family and work responsibilities on top of taking classes. While there's a "whole social apparatus" set up for students attending college straight out of high school -- including colleg Can You Pay Your Mortgage With a Credit Card? 08/30/2022 08:00pm • It's possible to pay your mortgage with a credit card, but it takes a little effort. Mortgage lenders in general don't accept credit cards. One reason is that mortgage lenders would incur transaction-related fees. Lenders also don't like the idea of your paying one debt by taking on another debt. So Judge tosses suit that tried to deem books obscene for kids 08/30/2022 07:07pm • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) ��� A judge in Virginia dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday that had sought to declare two books as obscene for children and to restrict their distribution to minors, including by booksellers and libraries. The books in question were ���Gender Queer: A Memoir��� by Maia Kobabe and ���A Florida man pleads guilty to $2.6M COVID-19 relief fraud 08/30/2022 05:24pm • FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) ��� A Florida man has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $2.6 million in COVID-19 relief funds. Daniel Joseph Tisone, 35, of Naples, pleaded guilty Monday in Fort Myers federal court to wire fraud, bank fraud, illegal monetary transaction and possession of ammunition by a con Student loan relief limited for many by US drug war's legacy 08/30/2022 05:22pm • President Joe Biden says he hopes his proposal to forgive federal student loans will narrow the nation's racial wealth gap. But a generation of Black and Hispanic Americans was disproportionately shut out of one of the keys to Biden's plan: the Pell Grant program. As part of the ���war on drugs��� � Groundbreaking advances emerging vehicle battery production 08/30/2022 04:46pm • Kentucky reached another stage in developing an electric vehicle battery sector Tuesday, with groundbreaking for a $2 billion plant by a Japanese company that will create 2,000 full-time jobs. The Envision AESC factory at Bowling Green in south-central Kentucky will produce battery cells and modules Gen Z, millennials speak out on reluctance to become parents 08/30/2022 04:44pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� At 24, El Johnson has made up her mind that she won't bear children, though she and her girlfriend haven't ruled out adoption. The graduate student who works in legal services in Austin, Texas, has a list of reasons for not wanting to give birth: the climate crisis and a genetic h Editorial Roundup: United States 08/30/2022 04:29pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Aug. 29 The Washington Post on Lindsey Graham's riot prediction. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham on Sunday said that if the Justice Department prosecutes former president Donald Trump for mishandling classified information, there will be ���rio Yankees, LeBron James to invest in AC Milan soccer team 08/30/2022 02:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Baseball���s elite are getting involved with one of Europe���s most celebrated soccer clubs. The New York Yankees are becoming a minority investor in Italian champion AC Milan, the second soccer team the baseball power will partially own after MLS���s New York City. A Los Angeles-b NYC announces debt relief plan for struggling taxi drivers 08/30/2022 02:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York City taxi drivers who owe hundreds of thousands of dollars on loans they took out to operate yellow cabs will see their burdens reduced substantially under a debt relief program announced Tuesday. Under the program announced by city officials, the New York City Taxi Worker Contrary to reports, student loan forgiveness in Va. won't cause tax hikes 08/30/2022 01:00pm • Contrary to national news reports, Virginia is not among the states that will treat forgiven student debt as income, according to the Virginia Department of Taxation. Department spokeswoman Heather Cooper said in a statement to WTOP that student loans that are forgiven "would not be taxable on th Former Westwood College students get federal debt canceled 08/30/2022 11:37am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Any federal student loans used to attend the for-profit Westwood College from 2002 through 2015 will be canceled after federal officials found that the school greatly exaggerated the job prospects of its graduates, the Biden administration announced Tuesday. The action will autom Danube drought reveals parts of hidden World War II history 08/30/2022 11:36am • PRAHOVO, Serbia (AP) ��� The worst drought in Europe in decades hasn't only scorched farmland and hampered river traffic, it also has exposed a part of almost forgotten World War II history: The hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships have emerged from the Danube River as its water levels Sri Lanka's president says IMF talks nearing successful end 08/30/2022 08:02am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� Sri Lanka���s president said Tuesday that his bankrupt country's talks with the International Monetary Fund for a rescue package have successfully reached final stages as he presented an amended budget that seeks to tame inflation and hike taxes. President Ranil Wickreme Romero completes Tottenham move; Hudson-Odoi to Leverkusen 08/30/2022 07:43am • LONDON (AP) ��� Argentina defender Cristian Romero has signed a permanent contract to remain with Tottenham until 2027, the English Premier League club said on Tuesday. Romero joined on a season-long loan from Italian team Atalanta in August last year and has established himself as a key member of T